Re: [PATCH v5] fs: clear file privilege bits when mmap writing

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

> Changing the bits requires holding inode->i_mutex, so it cannot be done
> during the page fault (due to mmap_sem being held during the fault). We
> could do this during vm_mmap_pgoff, but that would need coverage in
> mprotect as well, but to check for MAP_SHARED, we'd need to hold mmap_sem
> again. We could clear at open() time, but it's possible things are
> accidentally opening with O_RDWR and only reading. Better to clear on
> close and error failures (i.e. an improvement over now, which is not
> clearing at all).
> 
> Instead, detect the need to clear the bits during the page fault, and
> actually remove the bits during final fput. Since the file was open for
> writing, it wouldn't have been possible to execute it yet.


> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
> I think this is the best we can do; everything else is blocked by mmap_sem.

It should be done at mmap time, before even taking mmap_sem.

Adding a new field for this to strut file isn't really acceptable.

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